Ammo Question

[JoyfulJoker]

I'm not sure how to search for the answer to this question. Please excuse me if this has been discussed before.

The 4th rule of gun safety is to know your target, what's behind your target, in front of your target and to the left and right of your target.

I walked my home and thought about an intruder or home invader ( which has happened in our city) and the consequences of shooting THROUGH them and through my stucco walls and into a neighbors home.

Is their a type of ammo that is less powerful so that it would go through an opponent, but not into a neighbors home and cause them possible injury?
I would like to be able to shoot at will without shooting into a neighbors home. Our homes are all stucco Mission Style Homes and about 8-10 feet apart. It may lodge into an exterior wall, but it may pass through a window.

The day may never come, but if it does , it would be awful to hurt an innocent neighbor.

Thanks.

[Garv]

There has been some chat on this here.

Did you have a specific caliber and gun in mind?

With a shotgun for example, there is stopping power vs. penetration and a good amount of discussion on the right shot to use.

[Garv]

https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=361333

https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=1181652

https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=555008

Congrats on the CZ, my wife keeps trying to steal my SP-01

Above are a few on 9mm.

The CGN Google search button in the upper right will provide several more. Use "9mm HD"

One takeaway is to make sure that the ammo likes your gun.
(Another excuse for an extra range trip.)

Edit:

https://www.calguns.net/calgunforum/showthread.php?t=868406

[Trriemferent]

If youre really worried about your neighbors, try frangible ammo

[LAKA90034]

Through a sheet of drywall (or two), through the backside of your exterior stucco wall, and through the adjacent stucco and no common walls?

A handgun? If you’ve got a handgun that will do that, drop to a knee and use geometry to your advantage.

[kcheung2]

Shotgun

[plumbum]

If it really bothers you, check out the copper/polymer matrix loads:

https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1019547158/novx-engagement-extreme-self-defense-ammunition-9mm-luger-65-grain-arx-lead-free

These are light and frangible enough to reduce over penetrating.

[JoyfulJoker]

[tanks]

Glaser Safety Slug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaser_Safety_Slug

[200Apples]

The 4th rule of gun safety is to know your target, what's behind your target, in front of your target and to the left and right of your target.

The 4th Rule is "Be sure of your target", but we get your point, and the spirit in which you are posting.

http://donath.org/Rants/TheFourRules/

1. All guns are always loaded
2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not prepared to destroy
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target
4. Be sure of your target (and what is behind it)

[colossians323]

I'm not sure how to search for the answer to this question. Please excuse me if this has been discussed before.

The 4th rule of gun safety is to know your target, what's behind your target, in front of your target and to the left and right of your target.

I walked my home and thought about an intruder or home invader ( which has happened in our city) and the consequences of shooting THROUGH them and through my stucco walls and into a neighbors home.

Is their a type of ammo that is less powerful so that it would go through an opponent, but not into a neighbors home and cause them possible injury?
I would like to be able to shoot at will without shooting into a neighbors home. Our homes are all stucco Mission Style Homes and about 8-10 feet apart. It may lodge into an exterior wall, but it may pass through a window.

The day may never come, but if it does , it would be awful to hurt an innocent neighbor.

Thanks.

hollow points?

[71MUSTY]

hollow points?

Yep, most defense loads are designed to expand and expend all their force in the target and not exit to prevent just the type of collateral damage you are worried about.

[tanks]

Yep, most defense loads are designed to expand and expend all their force in the target and not exit to prevent just the type of collateral damage you are worried about.

Not every round might hit the target though.

[0ddl0t]

Lightweight, high speed bullets like the 65-95 grain 9mm loads. Or a 5.7... They'll still penetrate sheetrock & stucco, but they will lose velocity so fast that they won't be much of a danger on the other side.

FN5.7 vs the Harrell meat target: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kh_WxeOAcxo